Payroll software · Australia & New Zealand · Powered by Employment Hero
A complete payroll and workforce management system built for Australian businesses. It automatically applies Fair Work and modern award rules, so you can process wages with confidence and spend less time on compliance.
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Why Award Payroll
Stop calculating pay runs by hand.
Award Payroll is a complete payroll and workforce management system built for Australian businesses. It automatically applies Fair Work and modern award rules, so you can process wages with confidence and spend less time on compliance.
The result is faster, more accurate payroll and far less stress each pay cycle. If your industry award isn't listed in Employment Hero, we can write it for you, implement the system, and provide ongoing support.
No tickets raised, just an email via our support link and we will sort the issue out for you.
Everything sits in one place
Payroll software features
Here is a preview of just some of the great features we offer.
Illustrative figures only. Real rates depend on your Award, classification and how penalties and loadings combine. Award Payroll applies those rules automatically from the timesheet.
Modern awards are set by Fair Work and provide pay rates and conditions of employment such as leave, overtime, and shift work entitlements. Award Payroll offers an extensive list of pre-built modern awards ready to go so you can be compliant in payroll. Our modern awards are also kept up to date, so you can feel confident that your award calculations comply with Fair Work.
The ATO's Single Touch Payroll (STP) is designed to help you with your business's overall reporting, not add to it. So don't let STP slow you down from accomplishing all of your payroll tasks. Endorsed by the ATO as a compliant STP reporting software option, you will send your Single Touch Payroll report to the ATO each and every pay run with a simple click of a button.
Seamless integration connects to your accounting platform in the cloud.
What makes Award Payroll exceptional is its flexibility. Whether managers are looking for a pure payroll platform, or a more complete business software solution, Award Payroll offers the flexibility to integrate into numerous industry-leading accounting software packages to meet your needs.
Our intuitive roster generator makes building rosters second nature. Create shifts based on your business' standard working day, drag and copy shifts, and replicate rosters in a few clicks. Employee unavailability is displayed clearly to eliminate rostering errors. What's more, with our automated award interpretation and costed rosters, you will always have full visibility and control of your projected wage costs and budgets.
Once a roster is created, employees can be notified of their scheduled shifts in three ways: text, email, or push notifications to our employee mobile app, the EH Work app. You can even give employees the option to accept, swap, decline, or bid for open shifts in the app. Rosters have never been more accessible and convenient for employees and managers.
Communicating employees' rosters is easy with the employee portal. Share up to date rosters with employees on the employee portal, who have a real time view in case any changes need to be made. Reduce time spent re-organising rosters and replacing shifts, with employee shift bidding and shift swapping.
Sometimes, unforeseen circumstances can prevent an employee from working a shift that was assigned to them, and you have to look for a replacement. Here at Award Payroll, we're all about working smarter, which is why we have shift swapping available to alleviate your workload. Allow employees to swap shifts with other eligible employees only available at the relevant location, giving you certainty that your wages, costs and roster budget are maintained.
Do you have new shifts that are unassigned? Let shift bidding fill it for you! Employees can be sent a notification in the EH Work app on an available shift, and are given the option of accepting or declining a bidding shift. You can even set up unique groups of employees that will receive these unassigned shifts first, before opening it up to everyone else.
Do you have all employees under one roof? Employees can easily clock in/out onsite on Award Payroll's iPad app, Clock Me In.
Do you have employees on the go? Employees can enter their timesheets on Award Payroll's mobile app, the EH Work app, or through the Employee Portal for manager approval. Managers can then review timesheets before Award Payroll processes your pay run.
Employees can manually log and edit timesheets in the employee portal, automatically notifying managers for approval. Managers can view, edit or reject timesheets without having to leave the system. Compare timesheets with roster for easy tracking of variations.
Timesheet management has never been easier.
Employees can easily update their unavailability and request leave from the employee portal, which automatically notifies their manager for approval. Employees can even view their colleagues' leave dates in a handy leave calendar.
Document storage and acknowledgment for policies and procedures.
Employees can view their personal, emergency contact, banking, payslips, super fund details and rosters via the EH Work app. No need to call, email, or even log into a computer.
How it works
We look at how you pay staff today, which Award applies and where the risks are.
Business details, employees, existing leave balances, Award rules, ATO and super clearing.
We walk you and your managers through rosters, approvals and running a pay run.
Email support included, with hands-on help when your business or Award changes.
Pricing · No lock-in contract · Pay as you go
You only pay for active employees, meaning staff who were paid in that month.
$12 + GST per active employee. Minimum monthly charge $84 + GST (7 employees).
Hours at $160 + GST, billed in 15-minute blocks of $40. For multiple Awards, entities or locations, custom Award writing, and one-on-one support.
Estimate only, based on current published prices. Your final quote is confirmed after the free payroll review.
60-second payroll check
Award mistakes usually come from manual steps and complicated shifts. Answer six questions to see where you stand.
This is a general guide, not a compliance audit. Our free review checks your actual Award and pay setup.
Book a free payroll reviewWho we help
Built for businesses with complicated pay rules, wherever modern awards make payroll hard to get right.
Weekend and late-night penalties, split shifts and a mostly casual workforce.
Rosters that change weekly, junior rates and public holiday trading.
Shift allowances, broken shifts, sleepovers and multiple classifications.
Staff across many locations, clocking in from their phones.
Allowances, overtime and site-based costing.
Custom rules written and maintained when your agreement isn't off the shelf.
About us
With over 20 years' experience in applying Award wages, we know where pay rules get complicated and how to set them up correctly from the start.
We offer full one-on-one support to set up the systems you need to run a productive business, from rosters and timesheets through to your first pay run and beyond.
FAQ
Award interpretation means working out each employee's pay under their modern award: base rates, penalty rates, overtime, loadings and allowances. Award Payroll does this automatically from approved timesheets, using pre-built modern awards that are kept up to date with Fair Work.
No. Award Payroll is pay as you go, billed monthly for the employees you actually pay.
An employee who has been paid in the month. Staff who weren't paid that month aren't charged.
We write it. Custom Awards, enterprise agreements (EBAs) and above-Award conditions are set up as part of a complex set-up, then supported as your business changes.
Yes. Award Payroll is endorsed by the ATO as compliant Single Touch Payroll software, including STP Phase 2. Every pay run reports to the ATO with one click.
Super is paid through the HeroClear Payday Super clearing house, built into the pay run, so super can be paid at the same time as wages.
Yes. Employees use the EH Work app (formerly Swag) to see rosters, submit timesheets and view payslips, and the Clock Me In app for clocking on and off.
Yes. Award Payroll integrates with numerous industry-leading cloud accounting packages, including Xero and MYOB, so your pay run results flow straight into your accounts.
Yes. Multiple Awards, entities and locations can run in one account. Setting these up is part of a complex set-up.
Level 1 support by email is included for simple questions. Level 2 support, including one-on-one remote screen sharing, leave adjustments, assisted pay runs and Award changes, is $160 + GST per hour in 15-minute blocks.
Yes. New Zealand businesses sign up through our New Zealand sign-up page.
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Support · Existing clients
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